Confessions of a Slow Two-Miler books a champion stayer trained by

a champion stayer trained by Aidan O’Brien

A twenty-runner handicap on a big Saturday often fills even the most seasoned punter with dread

It required one of the greatest Guineas winners in the last 50 years to deny him at Newmarket

It also holds vital statistics on the breakdown of foal and broodmare numbers

Confessions of a Slow Two-Miler books a champion stayer trained byA Horse Racing Memoir by Matt Sheppard Given an opportunity to work as an unpaid pupil assistant to Mercy Rimell in 1986, I was lucky enough to embark on a fabulous journey of thrills and spills, highs and lows, and everything in between. I spent a summer flat racing at Classic winning trainer Paul Coles, then three years in Kildare as head lad to Arthur Moore when he was Irish champion jumps trainer, and was then head hunted to work a brief spell in